2004 Domaine d'Auvenay (Lalou Bize-Leroy) Meursault 1er Cru Gouttes d'Or

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 96.2 points

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  6/25/2020 - blacktruffle Likes this wine: 95 Points

  There is still a bit of reduction (aka sulphur), so a copper stick is advised, depending on your bottle. Typical popcorn nose. The dense core of fruit is nicely balanced by the acidity that appears to have faded just enough to allow this wine to be in its prime for enjoyment. A lovely wine and worth pursuing along with the 2002, if you can find a bottle. 1210 bottles made.

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  1/14/2020 - aagrawal wrote: 94 Points

  Dinner with Herwig (Heirloom cafe): Aromatic, slight reduction, lovely white fruits; palate is full bodied, medium-plus acidity throughout, dry, medium balanced acidity, almost a slight tannin on the palate; finish is long. A lovely wine, improving with more air. 93-94

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  4/14/2019 - blacktruffle Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Tasted side by side with the 2002. Shows the 2004 vintage character of greenness a little. Purer than the 2002, but less intense. Very enjoyable.

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  2/21/2019 - FYC wrote:

  Very rich and honeyed. There is some lemon acidity but this is more advanced than it should have been. Followed it through for 4 hours in the hopes it would improve but it did not. Drinkable but not what it should have been. Possibly heat damaged.

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  12/26/2018 - hprphf Likes this wine: 99 Points

  0490/1210. At first the melody is already wonderful: yellow peach, apricot, citrus, salinity, sea, hazelnut, honey, smoke, stone and floral. On the palate it is compact, round, meaty and dimensional with a firm drive. Further in its reductive mode, the wine becomes herbal, earthy, buttery with oyster, pie crust, stem, jam, trace of bee wax and harmoniously sharp alcohol, all defined and complimenting, luscious and attacking. The signature lemon curd is lightly flowing on top of the palate. So fresh the aromas are jumping out of glass; balanced meursault reduction combined with chevalier freshness and the body of a grand cru. Every sip is a spectrum of flavours, a wave that keeps broadening into precision with impressive length. Tame purity is intertwined with wildness, ever evolving with acidity to age in the long term. Simply extraordinary. 99-100

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